Score Wars – the Phantom Flicker
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Score Wars: The Phantom Flicker is the Cinemaker Co-op’s latest conceptual film festival. A “sound-before-image project,” it consists of more than 30 short Super-8 films. In order to participate, filmmakers were challenged to create an original soundtrack – narratives, interviews, nature sounds, local music, droning heavy-metal guitar noise, anything – and toss it into a box. Once all the soundtracks were submitted, each filmmaker returned to pick up one of the other filmmakers’ soundtracks at random. It was then their task to create a one-reel Super 8 film using that soundtrack. No one was allowed to use their own audio; all films feature original soundtracks.

This article appears in July 30 • 1999 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.